We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
"Little Gidding"
T S Eliot

Thursday 5 May 2016

All that jazz ...

The next letter in the Craft Barn's Alpha Dictionary challenge is J, to be accompanied by - a dragonfly (really?).

Anyway, I struggled with this one. I've only recently done dragonflies for the letter D, and J is a difficult letter anyway. I didn't get much inspiration from reading the dictionary either!

I decided on jazzy ... I love colour and a bit of jazz too!

I painted a random background with acrylic paint, made a dragonfly stencil, and then threw a lot of colour at it!

Not my best entry - but that is going to happen when I'm all dragonflied out! (Or when inspiration takes a walk!)


So enjoying this warm sunshine ...

"What day is it?" asked Pooh.
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favourite day" said Pooh.
AA Milne

12 comments:

  1. What a beautiful dragonfly and you are right J was a difficult one to do....I am not looking forward to z !!

    Great idea all the same from you :)

    crafty hugs Pen x

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  2. This was a really difficult one, I agree. I certainly like what you made, though, and love your dragonfly. It puts the J in jazzy!

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  3. Great page and yes it was difficult so I gave up and just used them as embellishments!

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  4. Great choice of word and lovely dragonfly too.

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  5. Love your background, especially the painty colours. I've just done dragonflies too, err?! Thanks for the Winnie the pooh quote, it made me smile :) Lou x

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  6. Love your Winnie the Pooh quote, so true. Your page is great.It all works well together and I really like your ribbon border xx

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  7. Yep, a difficult one. I tried to make Jazz work but it didn't fly (pun intended). Shame... I had the most beautiful stamps for that!
    Lovely background and the dragonfly pops off the page! pesky thing...

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  8. Well difficultas the twist was I think your chosen word is great! You've done a great job.

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  9. Its a great page. The dragonfly is very pretty.

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  10. Difficult but I think you cracked it with your Jazzy dragonfly. A very good idea!

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  11. Yes you certainly nailed it! Love the word and love that dragonfly! Thank you for entering The Craft Barn Challenge.
    Jane x

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  12. I love your jazzy dragonfly and the white dots finish the piece off perfectly.

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